morning herald newspaper. how reliable is this report? according to the herald a malaysian official said that indonesia said that their radar did not pick up the plane on its radar. from that they are deducing that the plane was either intentionally flown to avoid indonesian air space or that it was a coincidence. it disappeared while heading northeast from malaysia. and then malaysian and thai radar picked up a plane west of the peninsula. satellite data was used to calculate the southern flight path. i spoke with a former chairman who said this report could be true. it seems to me that that is a plausible explanation particularly if someone was
south over the indian ocean. if he did that the chance of civilian traffic control radar picking him up is small. as long as he aimed towards the m island nothing will pick it up. military radar is actually tracking? military radar there are a bunch of different kinds. in a nut shell they are essentially designed to track airplanes moving fast, maneuvering, have decoys, jam. they are called target tracking radars, the good ones. they are not going to lose an airliner that is mandering around at medium altitude. so, again, losing an air traffic control radar is relatively simple comparing to losing a military radar. where this guy apparently is flying and where the pings have been detected is what you and i talked about about a month ago
intending to for whatever reason ditch the plane in the indian ocean. now, the bottom line here is according to this report investigators essentially creating data in the absence of data. all this means is that indonesian radar didn t pick up an airplane. how can this play into the investigation? malaysia is still saying this is a criminal investigation. last week they said they cleared all 227 passengers. since then the investigation has centered on the cabin crew including the plane s captain and first officer. malaysian officials say investigators including some from the fbi forensically examined the captain s home simulator but at this point they say that hasn t turned up clues. seems like very little has. let s get more on this. dan hampton is the offer of a book coming out soon called
learn that the jet can fly around radar. apparently that is not a big deal at all from reading in the wall street journal. apparently not. we are all learning new things about how things work. that comes back to satellite tracking. one system is the old technology of radar. and then it is satellite which you need a few codes to turn it off. most pilots tell you they know how to turn off the system. the way to do this is according to some of the experts is you have to come up with a system that is untamperable with and that means no secret code that someone can enter it and always tracks. you mention 9/11. there were four jets that day. three of the jets somebody turned off the systems. correct. nobody said never let this happen again. we would have known where the jets were going.
lords of the sky . thanks for having me back cht. the idea that a pilot might fly around a country like that. not like the pilot is like i can avoid the radar by doing this. the pilot should know that. we go back to what you and i talked about probably a month ago. avoiding a radar isn t that hard to do. if you think of a radar like a flashlight. as the beam of light leaves the flashlight close to where you are holding it it is bright and shiny and concentrated. as it goes over a distance it will spread out and diffuse and its ability to pick up things and illuminate things will decrease. if this is planned like we pretty much said all along it is not very far fetched to say the pilot flew over the radar sight giving everyone the last heading of west which is what i would have done and then flown for maybe an hour off the coast before turning left and heading